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A former chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Tarauni local government area of Kano state, Alhaji Sale Kura has been arrested for sponsoring the assassination of two Kano state legislatures in the late 2012.
Addressing a news conference in Kano, the state’s Police Commissioner, Ibrahim Idris said the alleged killer identified as Ibrahim Lawal led the police to the suspected sponsor who allegedly sponsored the killing of two legislatures at the cost of N100, 000.
Alhaji Kura who is currently the chairman of the amalgamated traders association of Sabon Gari market in Kano was also an influential member of the PDP in the state. He was the party’s chairman in Tarauni local government area some three years ago.
He was allegedly arrested for sponsoring the killings of Alhaji Abba Garko of the PDP and Alhaji Isah Kademi of the All Nigerian People’s Party (ANPP).
According to the commissioner, the arrested politician has confessed to have physically participated in the attack and shooting of the late honourable members.
Meanwhile, one Abdullahi Mabo who was reported to have been the gang leader of the hired assassins; a gang Ibrahim Lawal confessed to have joined in January 2012 has now been declared wanted by the police.
The police command also confirmed that the suspected mastermind Alhaji Sale Kura was together with the late Honourable Abba Garko at the time of his assassination and prayed together at Yan’Awaki before he was killed by Ibrahim Lawal.
In an interview with Channels Television, Ibrahim lawal said he confessed the alleged offence under duress, while Alhaji Kura refuted any knowledge of sponsoring the assassination of two legislators.
Prior to his assassination, Alhaji Abba Garko was said to have concluded arrangement to leave PDP while Alhaji Danladi Isah Kademi was described as the strongest member of ANPP in the State House of Assembly.
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The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Ekiti State has nominated incumbent governor of the state, Mr Kayode Fayemi as its candidate for the 2014 governorship election in the state.
The declaration was made at a general meeting of the party at the country home of former governor of Ekiti state, Niyi Adebayo at Iyin Ekiti.
The former governor said he is solidly behind Dr. Fayemi in the forthcoming election scheduled for 2014.
Mr Adebayo added that it was a unanimous decision of the party leadership as he further solicits the support of every indigene of Ekiti state for the party’s candidate.
Reacting to the early endorsement, the state government welcomed the move but noted that there is still more to done ahead of the governorship election. “We are only half way†he stated.
Mr Fayemi ran for the Ekiti State governorship election in the 2007 elections on the platform of the ACN but the People’s Democratic party PDP’s candidate, Mr Olusegun Oni was declared winner.
But after a three and a half years legal tussle the Appeal Court on the 15th of October, 2010 declared Mr Fayemi, the duly elected Governor of Ekiti State.
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Eye witness account says that the fire which started around 8pm New Year’s Day may have been escalated by petrol stored in the first building built with planks and roofing sheets.
Properties belonging to occupants of both buildings were destroyed, including those of a newly-wed couple.
This comes barely a week after the famous Jankara Market was gutted by fire caused by a spark in a store filled with fire crackers which burnt about 15 adjoining buildings.
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The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, yesterday said that the long traffic delays experienced on airport roads due to security checks was in the overall interest of the public.
Mr. Yakubu Dati, the General Manager, Corporate Communications for FAAN, said this in a statement made available in Lagos.
“We wish to assure air passengers that passed through the roads leading to our airports during this Christmas/New Year holidays that the long traffic delays experienced on airport access roads, due to routine security checks, is in overall interest of the general public,†he said.
He said that the government was determined to put all measures in place at strategic locations, including airports to forestal any form of security breach during the yuletide period.
He noted that the measure was a positive step designed to complement FAAN’s effort at ensuring maximum safety and security of lives and property.
Dati, however, advised air passengers to leave their homes early so that the delays would not hamper their pre-boarding formalities at the airport.
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Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, yesterday, pardoned 30 prisoners following the recommendations of State Advisory Committee on Prerogative of Mercy.
Twenty of the inmates were released by the Governor at the Maiduguri Maximum Prisons.
He said the inmates needed not to remain in prisons, adding that government would
train them in skills and other trades to enable them become useful and contribute their quota to the development of the state.
To earn N10,000 monthly
Shettima, however, warned that ‘’your release does not mean that you should go back and commit criminal activities, because your being in prison was an act of God. So today, 20 of you are going home with transport money.
“Comptroller of Prisons will be paying you monthly salary of N10,000 until all of you are trained in various skills and traders.â€
According to him, after the training of the inmates government would provide them with take-off grants, so that they would be gainfully employed.
Some of those released included Musa Salisu, Hamidu Babagana, Musa Kyari, Mohammed Ibrahim, Ali Isa, Abubakar Fannami, Ibrahim Kaka, among others.
Inmates welfare
Speaking on the feeding of prison inmates and the acute shortages of portable water, Shettima said the broken down borehole would be reactivated by the Ministry of Water Resources, while 100 bags of rice, 10 jerry cans of vegetable oil and two cows had been delivered to the prisons.
He added that some of the inmates that cannot pay their fines of about N600,000 could go home as the money had been paid by the government.
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Senator Chris Anyanwu, has said that the best gift Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State will give the people of the state is to set a good example, tell the truth, show contrition and move into 2013 with clear conscience.
Speaking through her Special Adviser, Chief Chidi Ibe, the Senator described as “most insulting†a recent statement credited to Okorocha that she “committed a serious security breach†that would have caused the governor’s life.
“The best gift the governor can give the good and courageous people of Imo State is to set a good example for all by coming clean on this small matter, telling the truth, showing contrition and moving into the New Year with a clear conscience.
“Okorocha should religiously admit that he attacked innocent citizens and brutalized one of them for no just cause. His statements and New Year message of conditional forgiveness had betrayed the fact that he personally instructed and supervised the brutilization of innocent Imo citizen,†she added.
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Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has vowed that his government would step on toes this year, if need be, to check the menace of kidnapping, armed robbery and other violent crimes in the state.
Speaking at the annual thanksgiving service organised by Iwere Kingdom, the governor said communities that aid and abet perpetrators of violence on society would not be spared in the crackdown against criminality.
He said: “All those engaged in one form of criminality or another, such as armed robbery and kidnapping, in the state, should stop their nefarious acts and retrace their steps. This year, we are going to take security more seriously and anyone caught would be made to face the wrath of the law.â€
He warned that such acts of criminality were an embarrassment to the state as it was seriously affecting the image of the state among investors and visitors.
“You know I took an oath to protect lives and property and I will not sit back and watch criminals terrorise our people. Communities that provide these criminals safe haven would have themselves to blame as we cannot continue this way,†he warned.
Uduaghan added that his administration was focusing on improving educational infrastructure, training and motivation of teachers so that Delta State would maintain an enviable position in Nigeria’s education sector.
He said the scholarship award to first class students of Delta State origin was designed to prepare the ground for a crop of academics who would move the state forward.
He commended the Itsekiri Education Trust Fund initiated by the Olu of Warri and promised to support the vision.
In his sermon, the chaplain of Warri Kingdom, Dr. Mark Erumi, harped on the importance of thanksgiving that is acceptable to God.
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A crack team of Special Anti Robbery Squad, Imo State Police Command, has apprehended a retired police officer, for his alleged involvement in armed robbery.
Briefing newsmen in Owerri, yesterday, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adisa Bolanta, said the retired police officer was caught red handed when he broke into the home of his victim, armed with a loaded locally made double barrel gun.
“The retired police office, who resides in Owerri, was arrested on December 29, 2012. His supposed victim disarmed him and quickly raised alarm that attracted his neighbours,†Bolanta said.
He also hinted that one Kin Enyim from Ebonyi State and his colleagues in crime, Dan Ogbonna and Ikechukwu Nzelobi were nabbed for being in possession of illegal firearm.
“The trio were in a yellow tri-cycle when a thorough search was conducted on them following a credible tip off. A locally pistol and five rounds of live cartridges were found on them.â€
He hailed the officers and men of 34 Artillery Brigade, Obinze, for nabbing one Chibuike Kalu for impersonation and being in possession of police kits.
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BENIN—Former governor of Edo State, Chief John Odigie–Oyegun, has cautioned governors and National Assembly members of Northern extraction, over their vow to kill the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, pending before the National Assembly for consideration, saying that there were already enough security challenges facing the country, especially from the North.
Oyegun, in his reaction to the decision by Northern Governors Forum, Senators and House of Representatives members from the North, to kill the PIB on the ground that its provisions were anti-North, warned them to avoid doing anything that would plunge any part of the South into crisis as the country might not survive another crisis.
He said: “In any case, this nation has enough challenges facing it and they should not create a situation where what they are doing may become the last straw on the back of the already overburdened camel.
“It is clear that there is need for special attention to be given to the oil producing communities and for them to be given an interest in the survival of the oil industry. Proposals in those lines are long overdue and they should not interpret them as anti-North.
“What the PIB is trying to do is to preserve the industry for them and the whole country, including the various governors from the North.â€
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LAGOS—The shape of the contest for the 2015 presidential election was at the beginning of the New Year unfolding as a battle for the support of second term governors of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Besides the governors, Vice-President Namadi Sambo was also becoming an issue in the battle of wits between President Goodluck Jonathan and his onetime benefactor, former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
The vice-president’s problem is also being compounded by the reported interest of two second term governors angling to displace him in the event of Dr. Jonathan seeking another term in 2015.
The political difficulties of the Vice-president emerged following reports that Sambo through Governor Mukthar Yero of Kaduna State was in the know of a meeting between Obasanjo and traditional rulers in Kaduna State on New Year eve. Yero who emerged as governor of Kaduna State last month is largely believed to be a scion of the political family of Sambo having first served as an accountant in his private company before emerging as Commissioner for Finance in Sambo’s cabinet as governor of Kadnua State.
Obasanjo was in Kaduna State on New Year eve allegedly to commiserate with the state over the death of its immediate past governor, Sir Patrick Yakowa. During his stay in Kaduna, the former president met with traditional rulers who were summoned by the powerful Emir of Zauzzau, Alhaji Shehu Idris. The meeting with the traditional rulers followed similar meetings between the former president and opinion moulders in Northern Nigeria in recent times.
Multiple sources in the North confirmed yesterday that the events in Kaduna may have inadvertently put Sambo in a precarious position in the unfolding battle of wits between Obasanjo and Jonathan. Sambo was in Kaduna on New Year eve ahead of Obasanjo’s arrival. “How do you explain the fact that the governor got all the traditional rulers to meet with Obasanjo and do you think it could have been for nothing,†a top political operative in the North asked yesterday.
Sambo has largely refrained from giving vent to the increasing opposition in the North to another term for Dr. Jonathan in 2015. It was as such a surprise to some political leaders in the region yesterday that the vice-president would have associated himself with Obasanjo’s condolence visit which some alleged was a cover for his continuing mobilisation for the battle ahead of 2015.
Mallam Sani Umar, Media Aide to the vice-president did not return a call and a text message sent to him on the development.
Obasanjo, it was learnt, has been reaching out to governors across the country in a bid to win their confidence ahead of 2015. His efforts, Vanguard learnt, was upon submissions earlier made to him to beware of Jonathan’s power of incumbency. The former president it was further gathered was said to have dismissed the threat with the assertion that he knows that the power of the PDP rests with the governors.
The governors’ influence over the party flows from their control of delegates who come from the states.
Two northern govs eye VP position
Obasanjo’s alleged efforts nonetheless, northern cohesion to combat Dr Jonathan for the presidential ticket is alleged to be threatened with the subtle quest by two of the north’s second term governors to displace Sambo from the post of vice-presidential slot in a possible Jonathan presidential ticket in 2015. It is, however, not known if Dr. Jonathan is directly involved in trying to woo any of the second term governors to join him in a possible 2015 race. He, has, however, over time bent towards the governors on several issues concerning the PDP.
Two of the second term governors despite being beneficiaries of President Obasanjo’s goodwill are said to be playing a game of political survival and are believed to have given their indication to partner with Jonathan in 2015.
“Well that is one option and it is on the cards and there is nothing wrong with it,†a top aide of one of the governors that has been repeatedly mentioned as a possible vice-president told Vanguard on the condition of anonymity.
Obasanjo is said to be working on the strength of a conviction that he sold the Jonathan presidential ticket to the North on the promise that he would exit the stage in 2015 for a return of power to the North. Following pressures on Dr. Jonathan to contest the 2015 election and reports of the incumbent president’s failure to dismiss the pressures, Obasanjo who had earlier indicated his withdrawal from the political stage has lately been on a circuit of private meetings across the country during which he is reported to have been mobilizing opinion in support of his plan.
After a meeting with the National Chairman of the PDP Alhaji Bamanga Tukur last month in his Abeokuta, Ogun State home, Obasanjo pledged that he would not be stopped from making his opinions known.
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